Bethenny Frankel

Bethenny Frankel was born on Nov. 4, 1970 in New York City. Her father, Robert Frankel, was a legendary thoroughbred racehorse trainer and a member of the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame. Frankel would later claim that all her self-worth problems and issues with men were a result of her sad childhood, in which her father abandoned the family, and her mother, Bernadette, was a violent alcoholic who blamed her daughter for all that had gone wrong in her own life. Frankel would later hint at the trauma by remarking on "Bethenny Getting Married?": "I was raised in a cave by wolves." Frankel also battled eating disorders during this time, starving herself and purging at the age of 13. ...